Gladiolus Virescens v Virescens - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Rainbow With bizarre and unusual shaped

With bizarre and unusual shaped fruits resembling the face of a monkey hence the descriptive name of this chilli pepper

It has three species

Photos with credit to the late Rod and Rachel Saunders

and paratha-stuffed breads

Gladiolus Virescens v Virescens - Indigenous South African Bulb - 10 Seeds Rainbow With bizarre and unusual shapedGladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial bulbous flowering plants in the iris family. Sometimes called the sword lily, the most widely used English common name for these plants is simply gladiolus (plural gladioli, gladioluses or sometimes gladiolas). The genus is distributed in Mediterranean Europe, Asia, Tropical Africa and South Africa. The centre of diversity of the genus is located in the Cape Floristic